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The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-08-11

lThe town of Murfreesboro, N. c.,
is named for the grand father of
"Charles Egbert Craddock.
Of Miss Mary Murfree the Savan-
nah Ne,vs says: Everybody has
grown accustomed to the fact that
"Charles EgbertCraddock" is woman,
but nobody who met the fragile, pale
faced, lame girl during her recent fly
ing visit to New York found it easy to
understand how such quiet, little
creature, who was obliged to sit to re-
ceive her guests, could have obtained
such mountaineer's familiarity with
the rocks and the trees of the Tennes-
see crags, or have drawn such bold
and mastery sketches of the rough
characters who live among them. She
writes like an active fearless man, ac-
customed to every phase of wild-out-
of-door life. She looks like the most
delicate of fireside- bred women. She
is small, with big eyes that look big
ger when crowd has been lionizing
her till she is pathetically tired, and is
dark haired. She does not look like
an invalid precisely, but is evidently
far from strong. She is very simple,
natural and straightforward in con-
versation, modest to a degree in spite
of an amount of admiration that
might have turned any woman's head.
Any reference to the long mystifcat-
ion about her identity calls out rog-
uish smile, and they say that when the
Aldrich was made speechless with
amazement on his first presentation to
her she merely said : You know 1
owe you one for Marjorie Daw. '"-Ea.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-08-11
Love. His Old Master Yet.

When Lincoln's signature shook
off the shackles of the slaves in the
South there was among the negroes
who parted with Col. Tom Hardeman
a man named George He drifted
away, but the love of the old master
never died III his heart. He settled
near Americus, and now and then as
the years sped by would send Col.
Hardeman a few peaches or something
of the kind in kind remembrance
Yesterday the Colonel received pre-
paid telegram which read: George
Hardeman sends crate of chickens to
Marse Tom. GEO. HARDEMAN.
As may be imagined, there was a
lump in the Colonel's throaL when he
received that message from his old
time slave.-Ee.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-08-11
Nothing Like a Boom,

A man who had not been in cer-
tain Dakota town for something over
year was recently talking with a
man who lives there and happened to
refer to the stream the place is situat-
ed on "creek."
"That's no creek" said the native.
"They called it Buffalo Wallow
creek when / was there before
"Oh, well, that's all right, but its
Bic Buffalo river now"
"I don't see what could make the
difference?"
I can-that was before the boom,
it was creek then, but you bet its a
big flowing river with catfish and sea
serpents in it now" ."-Dakota Bell.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-08-11
"Befofi de W ah."

The Lancaster, Pa, MtelHgencer
says: "Chas. Steigerwalt, our local
numismatist, recently secured with g
collection of coins purchased, curious
-medallic relic of the old slavery days.
This medal is of oval shape, about an
inch and half in length, and was the
badge of freedom required by the city
of Charleston, S. c., to be worn to
distinguish the free negroes from
those still in slavery. It is struck
from a die, and in the center has a
liberty pole surmounted by cap in
scribed with the word Free surroun-
ded by City of Charleston A reg
lister appears to have been kept of the
wearers of these badges, as this one is
engraved No So"
The "medal' in question is one OF
the badges given by the city before
the war to all freed negroes. The
possession of it was prima facie evi-
dence that the negro was freeman
and procured for him all the privileges
of such, among others that of being
on the streets after 10 O. o'clock at night
without passport. They were not
displayed except as occasion required
but were carried on the person and
very zealously guarded by the owner
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-08-11
Co operative Manufacturing.

Fortunately, cooperation directed
to production is having sufficient sue
cess to give hope that it will win on
its merits. OF sixty-six so-called CO.
operative factories in England, max
ing $9,070,O00 annually, owned by
selling associations, seventeen divide
profits among workmen, and the num-
ber of this character yearly increases.
The work of managing the details of
manufacture to profit by cooperation,
is more difficnlt than that of manag-
ing distribution, but the success of the
latter gives every hope for the former,
and in the success Of co operation lies
the only practical solution now known
of the labor problem. 1t beats Hen
ry Georges "anti-poverty" out OF
sight, just as hard muscular work beats
all the "anti-fat'' remedies known
Philadelphia Press
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-08-11

An earnest Christian lady makes
the following offer to our readers =
"I will loan, free of postal and all
charges to such of your readers as
will promise careful reading and to
pay return postage after reading it,
book which in interesting style shows
the Bible to be self-interpreter, and
its teachings graadly harmonious,
viewed in the light of sanctIfed rea-
son and common sense
81 want to put this book into the
hands of all the skepticalIy inclined,
as an aid and guard against the grow
ing scientific skepticism. It is not
dry, musty reading, but truly "meat
in due season" to the truth hungry.
The light of this precious little volume
has made the Bible new book, trea
sure, mine of wealth. to many as
well as to myself And I feel that !
cannot better use my means than in
circulating this work by thousands
Address Postal Card to
Mrs. G. B. LEMUELs,
Allegheny, Pa
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-08-11
George on Socialism.

Henry George in the Standard of
a recent date says that the platform
to be adopted at the coming State
Convention of the United Labor par
ty should firmly and clearly define
the position Of the party with relation
to Socialism The efforts Of the So
cialists to foist their peculiar ideas
upon the party, have become so noto-
rious. that any attempt to evade the
issue would give the enemies of the
party pretext to make the charges
that they do. He thinks that the
issue should be settled once for all and
is not, therefore, in favor of excluding
socialistic delegates from the conven-
tion. He would like to see that ele-
ment represented by its ablest expo
nents, too, and have the question de-
cided on its merits Mr. George
thinks that the Socialists can accom-
plish more good with the United La
bor party than they can by working
separately, but they must abandon
some of their foreign ideas, or they
can have no place in the movement.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-08-11
Trinity College.

To those who love their church and
appreciate the good Trinity has done
in the past the Plant appeals for help
for Trinity. Talk about Trinity, send
your boys to Trinity. In thus advo-
eating the claims of Trinity, the Plant
does not desire to be accused of for
getting the other institutions of the
State. All are doing good, all ought
to prosper, but all other colleges are
better provided with patronage than
Trinity and the Plant desires to equal
ize matters. The Presbyterians send
to Davidson, the Baptists send to
Wake Forest. That is right Let
the Methodists initiate their excellent
example and send to Trinity.-Dur-
ham Tobacco Plant.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-08-11
Great Gathering at Rutherford Col
1ege.

The 2Sth annual session of the Lo-
cal Preachers Conference and great
Tabernacle Meeting will be held at
Rutherford College, August 18th to
30th. Ehe Tabernacle Association is
now at work on the grounds and will
do all that could reasonably be ex-
pected in the way of providing tents,
arbor or tabernacle, &c. Round trip
tickets good for fifteen days can be
J bought at the places and rates given
below, on any day, commencing the
18th and until the 30th:
From Goldsboro $1,000; from Raj
eigh $500; from Durham $3.50 ;
from Greensboro s5.75; from Salisbu-
ry $3.70; from Charlotte S4.60; from
Reidsville 1915; from Davidson Col
lege $50; from Salem 1915; from
Asheville s4.15; from Waynesville
S5.4O; from Webster $6.10; from
Paint Rock $6.10; from Jarrett's ST..
30 from Lincolnton $1.80 from Le-
noir $1.9O. Parties starting at We'll
don will get special rates to Raleigh.
Parties starting at Morehead City,
4NCW DCi aC 1uu lAluStOu dSh lOI
special rate tickets to Goldsboro
Parties starting from Wilmington,
Rockingham or Monroe will get spe-
cial tickets to Charlotte. The Taber-
nscle accommodations will be ample
for five or six thousand people. The
local and other preachers will occupy
preachers tent, and will be enter
tanned free. The preachers wives
will also be fed free Visitors will find
good board at % cents pei meal and
lodgings at % cents each. Connolly
Springs Hotel at the depot Gone mile
from the College,, new and elegant,
will entertain a large number of visit
ors at reasonable rates. Rev. r. l..
Abernethy will deliver series of lee
lures on the course of study.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-08-11
Savings Banks Booming

The deposits in the savings banks
of New York State have increased
since January 1st $20,O00.000, and
in the smaller banks of the same sort
in our State in like proportion since
their establishment. This old fash
ioned way of abolishing poverty beats
Henry Georges and DIR. McGlynn's
all hollow, and so we all know when
we think about it.-Neacs and Obser-
Ger.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-08-11

One by one the great men of the
nation are coming to the candid sup
port of Cleveland. Thurman, Nc
Donald, Sunset Cox. Sickles, Henry
Watterson, Senator Eustis and others;
but Kitchen still stands out and the
country breathlessly waits hiscoming.
Goldsboro Argus.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-08-11

L.
In 1887 Sir Walter Raleigh sent
John White with three vessels loaded
with colonists to found a settlement on
the far away and almost unknown
America. White landed on what is
now North Carolina and established
his colony on Roanoke island. A
short while after the departure of the
fleet for England, leaving the colonists
behind, child was born-the first on
American soil. To it was given the
name Virginia Dare. The new coun-
try SO auspiciously settled was named
Virginia, after England's "Virgin
Queen Elizabeth, and for the same
reason, the name Virginia was given
the first born. The colonists, when
the feet sailed, were busy preparing
their rude homes, and had thrown up
a rough fort, after the manner of the
time, to guard against danger which
must have been imaginary. so kind
were the Indians who lived in that
region. The triendliness of the latter
was so great that they aided the new
corners in every way. The feet car
ried to England good tidings of the
settlers, sin a land we'll watered, with
great abundance of fish and game,
with such grapes and fruits as have
not been seen before by Englishmen."
Three years passed and then the
mystery began. 1t had been the plan
that in little while the ships would
return and to the colonists, numbers
would be augmented by new arrivals
from England. But it was three
years before relief expedition sailed.
In 1890 it reached Roanoke. Where
were the colonists?- Echo only ans
wered the question. The people land
ed, searched the island thoroughly,
but not trace was there of the lost
colony save the outlines of the fort and
the one word "CROATAN" rudely
carved on the trunk of tree. There
were no Indians, and the colonisls had
evidently left in body. There were
no graves, no evidences of conflict ;
nothing to tell any tale of their where
abouts. The word "Croatan" was
more than meaningless. The ships
finally sailed away with this awful
story Of the unknown.
For three centuries, on both sides
of the water, the most melancholy in
terest has been attached to what came
to be known as "the lost colony Of
Roanoke" an interest which has deep
ened as the years passed.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-08-11

Scotch settlement and this was used
as post road until railroads came. 1t
was along this road that fast riding
couriers carried the tidings of the
treaty of Ghent to Gen. jackson at
New Orleans in 1915.
+ Concluded nert ,ueek.1
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-08-11

Mr.. Charles w. Dabney has resig-
ned the position held in Raleigh as
Director Of the State Experiment
Station and State Chemist, to accept
the position of president of the Univer-
sity of Tennessee and director of the
Experiment Station of that State
His resignation takes effect October
1st at which time he will assume his
new position. The salary at present
is So, 800, to be increased to $4,000
when funds under the Hatch bill be-
come available for the Agricultural
Department of the University.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-08-11
PARKER'S GINGER TONIC.

The Best Cure for Coughs, Weak Lungs, 4 sth-
ma, Indigestion, Inward Pains, Exhaustion.
CoTlbinlg the most valuable medicines with
Jamacla Ginger. it cNcrts Il curative power
over disease unknown to other remedies Weak
Lungs, rheumatism, Female Complaints, and
the distressing ills of the stomach, LIVER Kid
neys and Bowels are dragging thousands to the
grave who would recover their health by the
timely use of PARKER,S GINGER Tonic. 1t is
new life and strength to the aged.j0c. at Drug
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-08-11
Administrator's Notice.

Having qualified as Administrator of the
III Estate cf F. w. Meller Decd all persons
holding claims against said estate are hereby
notified TO present the same to the uudersign-
ed duly authenticated, for payment on or be-
fore the le Day of July, 1888, or this notice
will be plead in bar Of recovery. Also all per-
sons owing said estate are requested to make
immediate payment r. B. KERNER. Admir-
July 10th 1857. Of +, w. Melier.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-08-11
TOBACCO BOXES.

AM PREPARED TO FURNISH MANU-
/ facturers with all sizes OF boxes at rock Dot
placing your contracts. t. L. DAbbo'
June 16, 1SS7-tf
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-08-11
A CAROLINA MYSTERY.
COLONISTS OF ROANOKE ISLAND
LOST IN 1887.

Their Descendants Believed to be the
Croatan Indians of 1SS7-The Facts
ina Very Romantic History-Condi-
tton of the Croatans of the Present
Day.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-08-11

Now where, and what was Croatan?
1t was in Tyrell county, on the North
Carolina mainland, and across the
sound from Roanoke. 1t was there
the white people went, no doubt at
the special request of Indian friends,
who promised them more generous
land.
To bridge, in one sentence, the
space of three centuries of time, the
county of Robenson must be visited,
for there rests the other end of the
mystery of 1887. The Croatans are
in Robson. As the descendants of
those older Croatans, whose name was
the one link in chain otherwise lost,
and as the descendants also of the lost
colonists of Sir Walter Raleigh's i'll
fated expedition, they can justly lay
claim to more of romance than any
other people on the continent.
During the recent session of the
North Carolina legislature, a member
from Robson county, Mr.. Hamilton
Mcmillan started thought in a new di-
rection by asking for special aid fol
the Croatan Indians. He declared
that great injustice had been done
them in that they had been classed as
negroes. He claimed that they were
Indians, of high class, and of historic
name and fame, and that they desired
and deserved separate schools anc
special aid. Three hundred year.
after the colony of White was lost, tn.
descendants of those colonists petition
the legislature for aid in educating
/ their teachers-a legislature sitting il
a city named after Raleigh, the patror
OF the colony.
The legislature has hearkened t,
the matter and has granted separate
schools and special aid for norma
schools to the Croatans, meanwhile re
storing them to their proper position
as Indians and citizens.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-08-11
PART 1

r. A. Olds, of Raleigh, an AH6urm, Neao York
dUertiser.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-08-11

Thus the two ends of the chain
were picked up. 1t now remained to
discover the link between. To do
this visit to the Crotans became nee
essary and in Mr.. McMillan's COM
pany it was made. The county of
Robson lies on the states southern
border, adjoining South Carolina, and
hundred miles from Raleigh. The
land there is fertile, much of it in
swamp, filed with luxuriant vegeta-
ton, while there are vast stretches of
the long Leaf pine which formerly
yielded the staple of North Carolina's 5
commerce-tar, pitch and turpentine.
The Croatans now living there num-
Der 5000. They have enrolled near
" 200 children of school age. They
have twenty six churches, and are di-
vided into Baptists and Methodists.
They have in the past few months
built good schoolhouses. The very
best roads in all the state are found
there. A century or more ago they
opened the great Lowry road from
Robson to Campbellton Ga historic
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-08-11
GAINESVILLE, OHIO, BUSINESS
COLLEGE. PARSONS & KEN
NISON, Proprietors.

bookkeeping, Penmanship, Telegraphy, Shor-
thand, Type-wrting and Drawing. Young men
fitted for business Students can enter at any
time. Fall term begins SEPTEMBER 18th. Circu-
lars sent free.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-11-30
Had Nothing to Say.

Nine. Aubernou gives literary dinners
in Paris and rules them like Il strict par
Humanitarian. She has q silver bell ut her
side to ring for order, ind she gives each
guest his turn to speak. Onc evening
Mr.. Renan was talking when one of the
lesser lights tried to say something in an
undertone. She peremptorily silenced
him, and a few moments later, when
M. Renan had finished his monologue,
she tapped tho bell and said to the un-
fortunate, "Now, Monsieur, you may
speak," ''But, Madame" he exclaimed,
I only wanted to ask for some more
spinach.u
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-11-30
Hotels In Cuba.

A Cuban hotel is a curiosity to stran-
gers. The dining rooms here face the
street, and they arc as open Us though
no wall separated them from it. The
Office counter and writing table, or
writing room, are ut the end of the din
ing room, and eating, writing and bust
ness goes on inside Of the same wall.
This room, however, is a largo square
one, and there Is no confusion. The
dining tables are of all sizes, so that one
can dine alone or a parry of a dozen or
more cat at their table d'hotc together.
AS to decoration, the brightest of colors
arc used in the interior painting of the
hotel, and in some rooms ~frescocs pro
vail. Red and sky blue is seen every
where, and tho floors of tho chambers
and halls are paved in marble and red
tile. write this letter in my bedroom.
There is no plaster on the ceilings Of
these hotels. and the great raftcrs above
me are as blue rs tho bluest sky. Tho
windows arc almost as large as the side
Of tho room, and they ale kept open day
and night. The bed is Of iron, and tho
mattress was never made of feathers. A
framework extends on every Cuban bed,
and we slecpin cages Of coarse lace like
that used for cheap curtains at home.
Most Of tho Cuban beds have no mat
t~rcsses. TIC sheets arc stretched on
wire springs. The rest of the wood
work Of this room is rs blue as tho raf-
tiers. end ever y room seems to have its
own bright color. -[Cleveland Leader.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-11-30
Trusts the A pOthecary.

At n banquet given to Mr.. Theodore
Metcalf by the Boston Druggists Asso-
citation Oliver Wendell Holmes gave his
opinion of apothecaries as follows: ~
have always had a great opinion of the
medical advice of apothecarics. Tie
truth is, they put up the prescriptions OF
the best physicians in the place in which
they live and they have the very cream
of all :hcir wisdom at their fingers ends.
So, when l have myself been suffering
from any slight b idly inconvenience,
nm ashamed to sqy-or ought to BE-,
perhaps-instcad of going to a profess
sional brother, l have quietly crept into
the back room and asked Mr.. Metcalf
what such and such Il doctor was in tho
habit Of prcscr. b;ng.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-11-30
The Xcll,s Secret.

| knew it all my boyhood; in q lonesome
valley meadow,
khe a dryad's mirror hidden by the woods
dim arches near;
Its eye flashed back the sunshine and grew
dark and sad with shadow.
And I loved its truthful depths, where
every pebble lay so clear.
l SCOOP cd my hand and drank it, and
watched the Sonsate culver
Of tho ripping rings of silver as tho drops
of crystal fell;
l pressed the richer grasses from the little
trucking river
Till ut last l knew, as friends know, every
secret Of the we'll.
But one day I stood beside it, OH n sudden,
unexpected.
When the sun had crossed tho valley and n
shadow hid the place,
And lookei in the dark waters, saw my
pollid cheek reflected,
And beside it, looking upward, met an
evil, reptile face.
Looking upward, f~urtive, startled Mt the
silent, swift intrusion;
Thin it darted toward the grasses, and I
saw not where 1t fled,
But 1 knew its eyes were on me, and the old
time sweet illusion
OF tho pure INT perfect symbol I had
cherished there was dead.
Oh, the pain to know the perjury Of seeming
truth that blesses!
My soul was scared like sin to see the false
hood of the place
And the innocence that Knocked me; while in
dim, unseen recesses
There was lurking fouler secrets than tho
furtive reptile face.
And since then-ah, why the burdeni when
joyous faces greet me.
With eyes OF limpid Innocence and words
devoid Of art,
l cannot trust their seeming, but must ask
what eyes would meet me
Could 1 look in sudden silence Mt the secrets
OF the heart.-[JoHN BOYLE O'REILLY.